Entrepreneur Story: Judd Armstrong and Jaybird Sport

This entrepreneur Story will feature Judd Armstrong (http://linkedin.com/in/judd-armstrong-6b3221a), founder of Jaybird Sport (https://www.jaybirdsport.com/), who grew his business into a lifestyle brand, and significant business without external funding, competed with global competitors, and sold to Logitech for reportedly US$95M.

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In 2007 Judd Armstrong while living in the United States, launched Jaybird Sport (https://www.jaybirdsport.com/en-au), the first bluetooth earbuds being designed especially for active sporting users.

Over the next few years Jaybird quickly gained success and popularity around the world, as an active lifestyle brand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MysTaFc2rZo&feature=youtu.be

A sign of Jaybird's success was when Apple began stocking the products in their stores around the world. (https://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all-accessories/headphones-speakers?page=1&fh=47d1%2B331c)

In April 2016, Jaybird Sport was successfully sold to Logitech for approximately $90M USD. (https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/12/11418650/logitech-buys-headphone-maker-jaybird-for-50-million-acquisition)

In this presentation Judd will share his experiences:

• how he started Jaybird Sport
• challenges of building your first prototype
• experiences with scaling
• how it feels to sell your business
• Q&A

This will be a great opportunity to learn from an entrepreneur who managed to build, scale and sell his business without the assistance of external investors.

BIGJUMP (http://www.bigjump.com.au) is the sponsor of this event. We will officially launch of our beta-launch of our new product, Starter Blocks (http://www.starterblocks.com)!